Jake Hanrahan

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Jake Hanrahan
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Born (1990-01-23) 23 January 1990 (age 32)
NationalityBritish
OccupationJournalist, filmmaker
EmployerVICE News, HBO, ProPublica
Websitejakehanrahan.com

Jake Hanrahan (born 23 January 1990) is a British journalist, podcaster and documentary filmmaker. He reports on war and conflict, focusing on militia forces, paramilitaries and guerrilla warfare.

Hanrahan is best known for his work covering the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a Kurdish militant group, in southeast Turkey. He was arrested in September 2015 in Turkey with his colleagues Philip Pendlebury and Mohammed Rasool, after the three embedded with the PKK's youth wing, the YDG-H, who were actively fighting the Turkish Armed Forces. Hanrahan spent two weeks in several maximum security prisons in Turkey, including Diyarbakır Prison and Adana F-type prison, before being deported back to the UK.[1][2][3] Hanrahan called on Turkey to release translator Mohammed Rasool, who remained in detention for over 100 days after Hanrahan's release.[4]

Hanrahan has also reported on the War in Donbas, embedding with both the Ukrainian Ground Forces[5] and the separatist forces in the Donbas.[6] He has also covered wars in Syria, Iraq, and Palestine, as well as various riots across Europe.[7]

Hanrahan runs a grassroots independent media platform called Popular Front,[8][9] which consists of a podcast, documentaries and a magazine. His podcast has over 100 episodes, interviewing people from conflict zones around the world. Popular Front's documentaries are their most popular content, their most popular is the 2020 documentary Plastic Defence, about 3D printed firearms in Europe. The video amassed over 2 million views, and attracted much media attention.[10][11] Popular Front is also well known for many of its other documentaries, such as Add Oil, a documentary surrounding Hong Kong's fight against the CCP. Popular Front didn't work on many documentaries in 2021, however they are set to make a comeback with multiple documentaries set to release in 2022.

Hanrahan has also worked as a reporter and a producer on VICE News and HBO documentaries.[7][12]

Hanrahan's investigative reporting as part of Documenting Hate won a duPont Award in 2020.[13]

In 2020, Hanrahan started the podcast "Q-Clearance: The Hunt for QAnon",[14] aiming to clarify the origins and nature of the right wing political conspiracy theory QAnon.[15]

References[]

  1. ^ Ingram, Mathew (October 21, 2015). "VICE Media sites go dark in support of journalist imprisoned in Turkey". Fortune. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  2. ^ "Vice News journalists back in UK after release from Turkish prison". The Guardian. September 6, 2015. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  3. ^ Palmer, Ewan (September 3, 2015). "Jake Hanrahan and best mate Philip Pendlebury: Vice News journalists arrested for 'aiding Isis' freed in Turkey". International Business Times UK. Retrieved January 20, 2017.
  4. ^ "Northampton journalist urges Turkey to free imprisoned colleague". ITV News. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  5. ^ VICE News (2016-10-21), Inside the Front Lines Of The Ukrainian Cease-fire That Wasn't (HBO), retrieved 2017-11-07
  6. ^ VICE News (2016-12-26), Inside The DNR, The Russia-Backed Region Clashing With Ukraine (HBO), retrieved 2017-11-07
  7. ^ a b "Jake Hanrahan: Irregular Warfare". Throomers. 2019-11-02. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  8. ^ "Interview: Popular Front's Jake Hanrahan promises all the details of modern war". The Defense Post. 2018-08-22. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  9. ^ Markosian, Lilit (September 7, 2021). "The Story of Nagorno-Karabakh Is Incomplete". Columbia Journalism Review. Retrieved November 3, 2021.
  10. ^ Schneider, Ari (2021-02-16). "3D-Printed Guns Are Getting More Capable and Accessible". Slate Magazine. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  11. ^ Simpson, John. "Militant network pushes homemade assault rifles". ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 2021-04-24.
  12. ^ "The Rise of Independent Journalism". The Defiance Podcast. Retrieved 2020-05-24.
  13. ^ "Winners of the 2020 duPont-Columbia Awards | Columbia Journalism School". journalism.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-07-17.
  14. ^ "Q-Clearance: The Hunt for QAnon". Google Podcasts. 2020-10-06. Retrieved 2020-11-18.
  15. ^ Joho, Jess. "The 18 best tech podcasts (that aren't 'Reply All')". Mashable. Retrieved 2021-04-24.

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